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Just call people and talk to them, then you can get a read on their inflections etc, ask if it is ok to chat for five minutes. Don't just blast out IM's.

Stay away from headphones if you can or be very careful with them.

Construction industry seems to still be short everything, doors ,windows all those parts needed to build a house.

DST gives you more light in the afternoon, people don't want dark at 4pm. It is a good system.

Learn to play tennis. Take some lessons, don't worry if you are not very good. I guarantee you will meet someone, guy or girl. It is a great social activity that you can't do alone…

Edge has IE mode, you can run java applets there and all the old stuff.

Never heard IT to mean only desktop support, it is the whole thing.

Been waiting 25 years for that to happen

It is the weathly countries where people move out younger.

Great advice, learning another language gets your brain going and into social situations. He sounds lonely.

DC is a fantastic place to walk, especially in the spring and fall. I lived in a crystal city apartment for a year , it has a fun restaurant area on 23rd. Amazon is setting up ther…

The USA is not short of labor it is short of trained labor especially in the trades and hospitality industries. Illegal immigration in the last decade decimated participation in th…

This is not what I hear. It is a golden age for women, they can have lots of kids or none, up to them, that is a great thing. Everywhere you go is far more crowded than 30 years ag…

Not to be mean, but he has worked in the US for 30 years and does not have a 401(k)? He says he can not live on social security alone, so he has not saved a dime? I could understan…

We have lots of people on earth, they just need to be able to move to where they want to go. Low birthrate issue is nonsense. Let a couple million people from the Philippines in to…

If you offer an American a choice between more money or more vacation, they will take the money, for the most part.

So they feel they can not just put it all into VOO and VTI? Buffet has been saying for a long time it is tough to beat these two due to low fees.

In Canada there is no 30 year fixed product. Most people float month to month. Since interest rates have been dropping since 2002 prices will go up. Australia is very similar.

Resource extraction industries in Canada will always take a bulk of the engineering talent, that is where the money is. Venture capital for mining is well established in Canada. As…

Argentina is pretty messed up, low trust culture, outside of the family.

We had to live with sites than only ran in IE for years.

Nothing against your company, but when smaller companies get good long term contracts, they get bought up by larger companies and the good people leave and start new smaller compan…

Good people want to work at places with stock options and bonuses for good performance, the government can not offer that. Government is more suited for people interested in manage…

These big companies always have a lot of overhead. The middle layers of management are useless. Often the government will try to work with smaller companies that are under 50 peopl…